In Memorium: Lance T. LeLoup
First Director of the Public Policy Research Centers(s)
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Lance T. LeLoup, a professor of political science and one of the original directors of the Public Policy Research Center, died July 23 at his home in Greenbank, Wash. He was 60 years old and had been diagnosed with cancer several months ago.
LeLoup earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and his master’s and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University in Columbus. He came to UMSL as an assistant professor in 1974 and served from 1975 to 1976 as director of the master’s program in Public Policy Administration. He was chairman of the Department of Political Science from 1978 to 1980 and then again from 1986 to 1989. He was director of the PPRC from 1989 to 1996.
He left UMSL in 1996 to take a position as chairman of the Department of Political Science at Washington State University in Pullman, a position he held until 2001. In 2005 he was named head of WSU’s international programs boosting enrollment, strengthening the curriculum and tripling external funding for development projects around the world in four years. In 2005 he was named the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Political Science and in 2008 he was named a Regents Professor, the first WSU political science faculty member to achieve that rank. He retired as vice provost of international programs at WSU in June. LeLoup had a long and distinguished career in teaching and research, publishing more than a dozen books and 60 articles on American politics, budgeting, Congress and the presidency, and post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe.
He is survived by his wife Pam; daughters Molly, Jen (Jeff) and Becca; his sisters Laurel and Lynn and his brother Leif (Hanne). His family has established a scholarship fund at WSU. Contributions can be sent to the WSU Foundation, Lance LeLoup Memorial, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-1927.